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Parks novel among book critic’s top 100Award-winning author Brad Parks’ latest novel has been listed among the Best Fiction of 2012 by Kirkus Reviews, one of the nation’s leading book review publications. Kirkus selected “The Girl Next Door” as one of the year’s top 100 books out of the approximately 7,000 it reviewed this year.

posted 11.28.2012

Miller elected president of VACOJack Miller, the Harmony Village District representative on the Middlesex County Board of Supervisors, was elected president of Virginia Association of Counties (VACO) on November 13 at the group’s 78th annual conference in Bath County.

posted 11.26.2012

Sentinel to publish letters to Santa
The Southside Sentinel will again publish “Letters to Santa” from local children in its special “Christmas Greetings” section in the December 20 issue. Letters must be emailed, faxed or delivered to the Sentinel office no later than 5 p.m. on Thursday, December 13.

posted 11.21.2012

Members of US Coast Guard Flotilla 62 awarded top honorU.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, Flotilla 62 of Deltaville, received the Flotilla Meritorious Achievement Medal for Recreational Boating Safety for constantly improving, finding new ways, and using a variety of ideas to promote boating safety to reach the boating public.